How to request a form to be amended under section 15

How to request a form to be amended under section 15

If you receive applications or medical recommendations with errors, you can now legally request these forms to be amended under Section 15 of the Act on Thalamos. The request can only be sent if the H3 has been signed within 14 days after admission.

If the medical recommendation or the application has been done on paper, we advise you request the signee to make the amend by hand as you normally would do with a paper form. If a form needs to be redone, we advise you to create a new form and completed it again.

 How to send a request
  1. Click ‘ACTION’ on the form that needs to be amended under section 15, and click request amend.
    1. The request amend button will only show during the 14 days.

  1. Select a reason from the list provided. You can choose as many reasons as appropriate, depending on the error which needs to be amended.

  1. Enter additional information for this request (aka, patient name incorrect, it should be John Doe, not Joan Doe) and click ‘CONFIRM’.
  2. The request will be sent to the signee and the summary will change to amend requested. The request will now be visible in the activity log
The signee will receive an email and in-app notification, letting them know that there is a form which needs to be amended and your reasoning for this request
  1. You will received an email and in-app notification once the amend has been completed
  2. You will be able to view both version as displayed below. The original form version is marked ‘Old version’ and the amended form version is marked ‘current version’.
  3. The summary will be changed to ‘amend completed’ and once you have scrutinised the forms, you can mark the administrative scrutiny as ‘COMPLETE’
  4. Once you have marked the forms as scrutinised, you will no longer be able to request an amend.  





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